BE COMPLETE
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AND RENOUNCE YOUR THOUGHTS
Kṛṣṇa says, ‘Just renouncing the
sacred fire and not performing one’s
duty does not mean one is an ascetic
or sannyāsi.’ In those days, fire was
the basis for everything, whether it
was cooking or spiritual practice. For
everything one needed fire.
The word ‘fire’ with ‘cell phone’ for
today’s world! In this age, we can
say, ‘Don’t think that by sacrificing
the cell phone and laptop you
become a sannyāsi or a great karma
yogi.’ Just like how the cell phone
and laptop have become a basic
necessity today, in those days agni
(fire) was a basic need in life.
Usually, wherever our body is, our mind is not. To bring the mind to where the body is to renounce the inner chatter by completing with thoughts patterns. Thoughts cannot be suppressed. The more we suppress them the more they erupt. We need to let go. We need to constantly bring ourselves back to where our body is, to the present space of completion, to the here and now, away from the dead past and the unborn future.
We may think that we are in control of our mind. But actually, our mind controls us. This is what Kṛṣṇa means by sañkalpa, self-interest, because the mind wishes to satisfy the senses that it operates and controls. By visualizing, by hearing, by smelling, by tasting, by touching, through the sense organs, our mind wants us to experience pleasures that will keep us under its hold. Only when we renounce the mind’s control by going beyond the senses can we become a true renunciate.
Yoga is the renunciation of fantasies that we feel we need for self- satisfaction is Yoga. Yoga is the state when our desires, expressed through sensual pleasures, dissolve. We unite with our true Self in this state. In this state, there is no gap between the Divine and us.
In Sanskrit there are two terms, ‘dṛṣṭi sṛṣṭi’ and ‘sṛṣṭi dṛṣṭi’. Dṛṣṭi sṛṣṭi means to look at the world as it is and take life as it comes. Sṛṣṭi dṛṣṭi is just the opposite, when we want to create the world as we would like it to be, as we want to see it. We want the world running according to our fantasies, instead of coming to terms with the reality of the world. This is a sure recipe for disaster.
YOGA -
UNITING THE
BODY AND MIND
Yoga integrates body, mind
and spirit. It is a journey into
the inner Self, towards the
Self. In Patañjali's Aṣṭāṅga
Yoga, bliss is the goal, the
path, and the end result.
Patañjali's system of yoga is a
way of life. If we practice this
with integrity and
authenticity, it will lead us
into enlightenment.
Yoga is a straight technique to achieve the Divine experience. This formula cannot be modified or altered. Actually, yoga refers to the process of uniting. The method in which we do postures in yoga is not important. It is the thought, the idea with which we move our body in the posture that matters. When we reach the state of yoga, we are in a meditative state of bliss.
GOALS
To help the child live in the
present moment without being
attached to fantasies of it. To
help the child understand that
our mind wants to keep us
under its hold and that the
mind wishes to satisfy the senses
that it controls.
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